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Missouri Tigers football
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The Missouri Tigers football program represents the University of Missouri in college football and competes in the Football Bowl Subdivision of the National Collegiate Athletic Association. Since 2012, Missouri has been a member of the Southeastern Conference and is aligned in its Eastern Division. Home games are played at Faurot Field in Columbia, Missouri, Missouris football program dates back to 1890, and has appeared in 31 bowl games. Missouri has won 15 conference titles,5 division titles, and has 2 national championship selections recognized by the NCAA, entering the 2016 season, Missouris all-time record is 668–541–53.550. The team was coached by Gary Pinkel, who is the winning-est coach of all-time at Missouri, pinkels record with Mizzou after his final game on Nov.27,2015, is 118–73. † Denotes co-champions * The 1960 Big Eight title was awarded after a loss to Kansas was reversed due to Kansas use of a player who was later ruled to be ineligible. The Tigers were previously members of the Big 12 North division between its inception in 1996 and the dissolution of divisions within the Big 12 in 2011. The Tigers joined the SEC as members of the SEC East starting in 2012, the Tigers have been declared champions twice by non-consensus polls. Neither of these championships are officially claimed by Missouri. * The 1960 record was recorded as 10-1, but was later changed to 11-0 due to Kansas subsequent forfeit. Missouri has appeared in 31 bowl games, including 10 major bowl appearances,4 Orange Bowls,3 Cotton Bowls,2 Sugar Bowls, Missouris entire bowl history is shown in the table below. 11960 team lost to Kansas but was later awarded win by default due to an ineligible Kansas player, coaching Staff Scout. com and Rivals. J. A. /Oakland Raiders, St. J. Moe – former wide receiver for the St. At that time, plundering guerrilla bands habitually raided small towns, such organizations as temporary home guards and vigilance companies banded together to fight off any possible forays. The towns preparedness discouraged any guerrilla activity and the organization began to disband in 1864. However, it was rumored that a band, led by the notorious Bill Anderson. Quickly organized was a guard of Columbia citizens, who built a blockhouse. This company was called The Missouri Tigers, the reputation of the intrepid Tigers presumably traveled abroad, and Andersons gang detoured around Columbia. Truman the Tiger was introduced as the schools mascot against the Utah State Aggies in 1986, Missouri plays the other six SEC East opponents once per season

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Big Six Conference
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The Big Eight Conference was a National Collegiate Athletic Association -affiliated Division I-A college athletic association that sponsored football. Additionally, the University of Iowa was an member of the MVIAA. The conference was dissolved in 1996, the Big Eight kept its headquarters in Kansas City, Missouri. In February 1995, the Big Eight and the Southwest Conference announced that the two leagues had reached an agreement to form a new conference. The eight members of the Big Eight joined with SWC schools Texas, Texas A&M, Baylor, and Texas Tech to form the Big 12 Conference the following year. A vote was conducted on whether to keep the new headquarters in Kansas City. The two Oklahoma schools, all four Texas schools, and Colorado voted for the move while both Kansas schools, Nebraska, Missouri, and Iowa State voted for Kansas City. The University of Iowa who was also a member of the Western Conference was also a joint member of the conference, Iowa only participated in football and outdoor mens track and field. In 1908, Drake University and Iowa Agricultural College joined the MVIAA, Iowa who was a joint member departed in 1911 to only compete in the Western Conference, but Kansas State University joined the conference in 1913. Nebraska left in 1918 to play as an independent for two seasons before returning in 1920, in 1919, the University of Oklahoma and Saint Louis University applied for membership, but were disapproved due to deficient management of their athletic programs. The conference then added Grinnell College in 1919, with the University of Oklahoma applying again, Oklahoma A&M University joined in 1925, bringing conference membership to ten, an all-time high. At a meeting in Lincoln, Nebraska, on May 19,1928, Six of the seven state schools formed a conference that was initially known as the Big Six Conference. Just before the start of practice, the six schools announced they would retain the MVIAA name for formal purposes. However, fans and media continued to call it the Big Six, the three private schools – Drake, Grinnell, and Washington University – joined with Oklahoma A&M, becoming known as the Missouri Valley Conference. For the remainder of the Big Eights run, both conferences claimed 1907 as their date, as well as the same history through 1927. To this day, it has never been established which conference was the original. Conference membership grew with the addition of the University of Colorado on December 1,1947, later that month, Reaves E. Peters was hired as Commissioner of Officials and Assistant Secretary and set up the first conference offices in Kansas City, Missouri. With the addition of Colorado, the unofficial name became the Big Seven Conference, coincidentally

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Gwinn Henry
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Gwinn Henry was an American football player, track athlete, coach, and college athletics administrator. Henry was also the coach of the St. Louis Gunners. Henry was the first head coach at the Howard Payne University in Brownwood, Texas. His coaching record at Howard Payne was 5–7–3, Henry was head coach of the University of Missouri from 1923 to 1931. During his tenure, he compiled a 40–28–9 record, on December 25,1924, he led Missouri against USC at the Los Angeles Christmas Festival, losing by a score of 20–7. Henry also coached at the University of Kansas, University of New Mexico, Henry moved to Albuquerque, New Mexico in 1943 and entered the real estate business. He died there on May 17,1955 at the age of 87, Henry is the grandfather of collegiate track and field coach Pat Henry. Kansas Sports Hall of Fame profile Gwinn Henry at the College Football Data Warehouse

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Big Eight Conference
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The Big Eight Conference was a National Collegiate Athletic Association -affiliated Division I-A college athletic association that sponsored football. Additionally, the University of Iowa was an member of the MVIAA. The conference was dissolved in 1996, the Big Eight kept its headquarters in Kansas City, Missouri. In February 1995, the Big Eight and the Southwest Conference announced that the two leagues had reached an agreement to form a new conference. The eight members of the Big Eight joined with SWC schools Texas, Texas A&M, Baylor, and Texas Tech to form the Big 12 Conference the following year. A vote was conducted on whether to keep the new headquarters in Kansas City. The two Oklahoma schools, all four Texas schools, and Colorado voted for the move while both Kansas schools, Nebraska, Missouri, and Iowa State voted for Kansas City. The University of Iowa who was also a member of the Western Conference was also a joint member of the conference, Iowa only participated in football and outdoor mens track and field. In 1908, Drake University and Iowa Agricultural College joined the MVIAA, Iowa who was a joint member departed in 1911 to only compete in the Western Conference, but Kansas State University joined the conference in 1913. Nebraska left in 1918 to play as an independent for two seasons before returning in 1920, in 1919, the University of Oklahoma and Saint Louis University applied for membership, but were disapproved due to deficient management of their athletic programs. The conference then added Grinnell College in 1919, with the University of Oklahoma applying again, Oklahoma A&M University joined in 1925, bringing conference membership to ten, an all-time high. At a meeting in Lincoln, Nebraska, on May 19,1928, Six of the seven state schools formed a conference that was initially known as the Big Six Conference. Just before the start of practice, the six schools announced they would retain the MVIAA name for formal purposes. However, fans and media continued to call it the Big Six, the three private schools – Drake, Grinnell, and Washington University – joined with Oklahoma A&M, becoming known as the Missouri Valley Conference. For the remainder of the Big Eights run, both conferences claimed 1907 as their date, as well as the same history through 1927. To this day, it has never been established which conference was the original. Conference membership grew with the addition of the University of Colorado on December 1,1947, later that month, Reaves E. Peters was hired as Commissioner of Officials and Assistant Secretary and set up the first conference offices in Kansas City, Missouri. With the addition of Colorado, the unofficial name became the Big Seven Conference, coincidentally

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1929 Oklahoma Sooners football team
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The 1929 Oklahoma Sooners football team represented the University of Oklahoma in the 1929 college football season. No Sooners received All-America honors in 1929, though back Frank Crider received all-conference honors

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American football
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The offense must advance at least ten yards in four downs, or plays, or else they turn over the football to the opposing team, if they succeed, they are given a new set of four downs. Points are primarily scored by advancing the ball into the teams end zone for a touchdown or kicking the ball through the opponents goalposts for a field goal. The team with the most points at the end of a game wins, American football evolved in the United States, originating from the sports of association football and rugby football. The first game of American football was played on November 6,1869, during the latter half of the 1870s, colleges playing association football switched to the Rugby Union code, which allowed carrying the ball. American football as a whole is the most popular sport in the United States, Professional football and college football are the most popular forms of the game, with the other major levels being high school and youth football. As of 2012, nearly 1.1 million high school athletes and 70,000 college athletes play the sport in the United States annually, almost all of them men, in the United States, American football is referred to as football. The term football was established in the rulebook for the 1876 college football season. The terms gridiron or American football are favored in English-speaking countries where other codes of football are popular, such as the United Kingdom, Ireland, New Zealand, American football evolved from the sports of association football and rugby football. What is considered to be the first American football game was played on November 6,1869 between Rutgers and Princeton, two college teams, the game was played between two teams of 25 players each and used a round ball that could not be picked up or carried. It could, however, be kicked or batted with the feet, hands, head or sides, Rutgers won the game 6 goals to 4. Collegiate play continued for years in which matches were played using the rules of the host school. Representatives of Yale, Columbia, Princeton and Rutgers met on October 19,1873 to create a set of rules for all schools to adhere to. Teams were set at 20 players each, and fields of 400 by 250 feet were specified, Harvard abstained from the conference, as they favored a rugby-style game that allowed running with the ball. An 1875 Harvard-Yale game played under rugby-style rules was observed by two impressed Princeton athletes and these players introduced the sport to Princeton, a feat the Professional Football Researchers Association compared to selling refrigerators to Eskimos. Princeton, Harvard, Yale and Columbia then agreed to play using a form of rugby union rules with a modified scoring system. These schools formed the Intercollegiate Football Association, although Yale did not join until 1879, the introduction of the snap resulted in unexpected consequences. Prior to the snap, the strategy had been to punt if a scrum resulted in bad field position, however, a group of Princeton players realized that, as the snap was uncontested, they now could hold the ball indefinitely to prevent their opponent from scoring. In 1881, both teams in a game between Yale-Princeton used this strategy to maintain their undefeated records, each team held the ball, gaining no ground, for an entire half, resulting in a 0-0 tie

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University of Missouri
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The University of Missouri is a public land-grant research university located in Columbia, Missouri, U. S. It was founded in 1839 as the first public institution of higher education west of the Mississippi River, as the largest university in the state, it enrolled 32,777 students in 2016, offering over 300 degree programs in 19 academic colleges in the 2014–2015 school year. It is the campus of the University of Missouri System, which also maintains campuses in Kansas City, Rolla. MU is one of the nations top-tier R1 institutions and one of the 34 public universities to be members of the Association of American Universities, there are more than 300,000 MU alumni living worldwide with over one half continuing to reside in Missouri. The university was ranked 103rd among national universities in the 2016 U. S. News & World Report rankings, starting in December 1953, it boasts the countrys only university-owned TV network affiliate, operated by the Missouri School of Journalism. In 1908, the worlds first school of journalism was founded by Walter Williams as the Missouri School of Journalism, the University of Missouri Research Reactor Center is the worlds most powerful university research reactor. MU is one of six public universities in the United States with a school of medicine, veterinary medicine, engineering, agriculture. The university also owns the University of Missouri Health Care system, the only athletic program that operates a NCAA Division I FBS football team in Missouri is known as the Missouri Tigers and competes as a member of the Southeastern Conference. The schools mascot, Truman the Tiger, is named after Missourian, according to the NCAA, the American tradition of homecoming was established at the university in 1911, the tradition has since been adopted nationwide. In 1839, the Missouri Legislature passed the Geyer Act to establish funds for a state university and it would be the first public university west of the Mississippi River. To secure the university, the citizens of Columbia and Boone County pledged $117,921 in cash, the land on which the university was eventually constructed was just south of Columbias downtown and owned by James S. Rollins. He was later called the Father of the University, as the first public university in the Louisiana Purchase, the school was shaped by Thomas Jeffersons ideas about public education. In 1862 the American Civil War forced the university to close for much of the year, residents of Columbia formed a home guard militia that became known as the Fighting Tigers of Columbia. They were given the name for their readiness to protect the city and university, in 1890, the universitys newly formed football team took the name the Tigers after the Civil War militia. In 1870 the institution was granted land-grant college status under the Morrill Act of 1862, the act led to the founding of the Missouri School of Mines and Metallurgy as an offshoot of the main campus in Columbia. It developed as the present-day Missouri University of Science and Technology, in 1888 the Missouri Agricultural Experiment Station opened. This grew to encompass ten centers and research farms around Missouri, by 1890 the university encompassed a normal college, engineering college, arts and science college, school of agriculture and mechanical arts. School of medicine, and school of law, on January 9,1892, Academic Hall, the institutions main building, burned in a fire that completely gutted the building, leaving little more standing than six stone Ionic columns

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Columbia, Missouri
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Columbia /kəˈlʌmbiə/ is a city in the U. S. state of Missouri and the county seat of Boone County. Founded in 1818, it is home to the University of Missouri and is the city of the Columbia Metropolitan Area. It is Missouris fourth most-populous city, with a population of 119,108 in 2015. As a midwestern town, the city has a reputation for progressive politics, public art. At the center of Downtown is 8th Street, also known as the Avenue of the Columns, which connects Francis Quadrangle and Jesse Hall to the Boone County Courthouse, originally an agricultural town, the cultivation of the mind is Columbias chief economic concern today. Never a major center of manufacturing, the city depends on healthcare, insurance. Several companies, such as Shelter Insurance, Carfax, and Slackers CDs, cultural institutions include the State Historical Society of Missouri, the Museum of Art and Archaeology, and the annual True/False Film Festival. The Missouri Tigers, the only major college athletic program, play football at Faurot Field. The city is built upon the hills and rolling prairies of Mid-Missouri, near the Missouri River valley. Limestone forms bluffs and glades while rain carves caves and springs which water the Hinkson, Roche Perche, surrounding the city, Rock Bridge Memorial State Park, Mark Twain National Forest, and Big Muddy National Fish and Wildlife Refuge all form a greenbelt preserving sensitive and rare environments. The first humans were hunters who entered the area at least twelve thousand years ago. Later, woodland tribes lived in villages along waterways and built mounds in high places, the Osage and Missouria nations were expelled by the exploration of French traders and the rapid settlement of American pioneers. German, Irish, and other European immigrants soon joined, the modern populace is unusually diverse, over eight percent foreign-born. While White and Black remain the largest ethnicities, Asians are now the third-largest group, todays Columbians are remarkably highly educated and culturally midwestern, though traces of their Southern past remain. The city has called the Athens of Missouri for its classic beauty and educational emphasis. The Columbia area was part of the Mississippian culture and home to the Mound Builders. When European explorers arrived, the area was populated by the Osage, in 1678, La Salle claimed all of Missouri for France. The Lewis and Clark Expedition passed by the area on the Missouri River in early June 1804, in 1806, two sons of Daniel Boone established a salt lick 40 miles northwest of Columbia

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Faurot Field
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Faurot Field /fɔːˈroʊ/, /fəˈroʊ/ at Memorial Stadium is a stadium in Columbia, Missouri, United States, on the campus of the University of Missouri. It is primarily used for football and serves as the field for the Missouri Tigers football program. In 1972, Memorial Stadiums playing surface was named Faurot Field in honor of longtime coach Don Faurot, during the offseason, soccer goals are set up in the end zones and it is used for intramural matches. This tradition stopped when Missouri joined the Southeastern Conference and conference scheduling made hosting the more difficult. Faurot Field was also home to the Missouri State High School Activities Association football championships for many years. It is the second-largest sports facility by seating capacity in the state of Missouri, the stadium is an early 20th century horseshoe-shaped stadium, with seating added on in the open end zone. The original horseshoe is completed by a berm in the curved end. The berm is famous for the giant block M made of painted white stones located behind the end zone, a paved path encircles the west, north and east sides of the field taking the place of the track, removed in 1994. Fundraising began in 1921 for a Memorial Union and a Memorial Stadium to be constructed at the University, the names of the two projects were a tribute to Mizzou alumni who lost their lives during World War I. Ground was broken on the site of the stadium in December 1925. The site was a natural valley that lay between twin bluffs south of the campus. Original plans called for the stadium to seat 25,000, according to legend, a rock crusher and truck were buried during initial blasting, which still remain buried under the field. Memorial Stadium was dedicated on October 2,1926, to the memory of 112 alumni, the 25, 000-seat stadium—the lower half of the current facility—was built with a 440-yard track that circled the playing field. That first October game against Tulane was marred by rainstorms that washed out a bridge into Columbia coming from the side of Missouri. While the game out, the field could not be sodded due to the wet conditions. Therefore, a surface of sawdust and tree bark was used, grass would be installed thenafter until the 1980s. The highly recognizable rock M of the end zone debuted on October 1,1927. The monument was built by members of the class using leftover rocks from the original stadium construction

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Truman the Tiger
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Truman the Tiger is the official mascot of the athletic teams of the University of Missouri Tigers. Truman is named after U. S. President Harry S. Truman, the mascot was named on September 12,1986, though the use of a Bengal tiger as Missouris mascot is traced to the 1890s. Truman has been awarded best mascot in the several times. The mascot makes hundreds of appearances statewide at university functions, sporting events and at private parties, the day of the 2011 Independence Bowl featuring Missouri and North Carolina, Truman accidentally broke the crystal bowl that was part of the trophy to be awarded to the victorious team. In 1864, while in the midst of the American Civil War and it was during this time that the residents of Columbia formed a home guard unit that became notoriously known as the Fighting Tigers of Columbia. This name was given because of the groups steadfast readiness to fight against Confederate bushwhackers, hoping to plunder the city and university, under the command of Bloody Bill Anderson. Later, in 1890, an alumnus suggested the universitys newly formed football team be called the Tigers out of respect for those who fought to defend Columbia, the Tiger was the official mascot of the University of Missouri before Truman took his place in 1986. Trumans predecessor was a plain grey tiger with black stripes that was known as The Tiger. The Tiger was officially replaced by the more family-friendly Truman The Tiger before the 1986 football season, history of the University of Missouri Missouris Mascot and Colors

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Marching Mizzou
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Marching Mizzou, M2, or The Big M of the Midwest is the performing marching band for the University of Missouri, founded in 1885 as a college military band. Originally consisting of only 12 members, it is now the largest student organization on the MU campus, Marching Mizzous signature drill Flip Tigers has been a well-known tradition of its pre-game show since 1960. Marching Mizzou began as the University of Missouri Cadet Band in 1885, initially, membership was limited to members of the schools Corps of Cadets. The Corps obliged, and applications for membership grew quickly, being a military band, the group performed at both Cadet Corps events and school events, playing music from composers like Beethoven and Wagner. Under George Venable, director from 1910 to 1946, the band moved away from military marching. The big M formation debuted in 1934, and the band won highest honors in the Big 6 Conference that same year. Following the dissolution of the Corps of Cadets in 1944, membership was opened every male in the university, the bands first annual High School Band Day was held in 1945, inviting high schools to participate in a massed performance during half-time. In 1956, The University of Missouri Cadet Band split into a band, a university band. Charles Emmons became director in 1957, and under his direction women were allowed to join the band in 1958, by 1966, over 50 bands and 4,000 students were participating in Band Day, requiring two sub-conductors to relay cues to the entire group. In 1957, director Charles Emmons added a group of baton-twirling majorettes, the group became known as the Golden Girls after purchasing now-iconic gold sequined uniforms in 1965. When Alexander Pickard became director in 1966, he began adding dancing to the Golden Girls routines, for the next decade, the majorettes evolved into a dance team as their popularity across the campus grew. By the time they ceased carrying their batons in 1976, the group almost entirely was performing as dancers, the Golden Girls gradually became a separate entity from the band, while the few feature twirlers remained a part of Marching Mizzou. The Golden Girls were invited to perform at the Japan Classic after winning the 1991 NCA Collegiate Cheer and they went on to win the same competition again in 1992 and 2003. Marching Mizzou was invited by President Truman to lead his Inaugural Parade in 1949, however, as a consolation, the legislature allowed the band to march at the governors inauguration in Jefferson City. M2 performed at Wembley Stadium in England in 1975 to 100,000 spectators, in January 2001, Marching Mizzou succeeded in traveling to Washington D. C. to perform in the inaugural parade for President George W. Bush. In March 2012, and then again in 2016, Marching Mizzou traveled to Dublin and Limerick, Ireland to perform in the St. Patricks Day Parade and an International Marching Competition, respectively. Marching Mizzou today has near 300 band members, including a color guard, a few feature twirlers. These drum majors serve as the top student leaders in M2, assisting in practices, the Golden Girls, under the coaching of Shannon Fry, work closely with the bands leaders and attend two weekly practices with Marching Mizzou

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1911 Kansas vs. Missouri football game
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It is widely considered, although contested, to be the first college football homecoming game ever played. The Missouri Tigers, under coach Chester Brewer entered the game with a record of 2 wins,4 losses, the Kansas Jayhawks, led by Ralph W. Sherwin brought a record of 4 wins,2 losses, and 1 tie. The game ended in a 3–3 tie and was the game of the season for both schools. More than 1,000 people gathered in downtown Lawrence, Kansas to watch a mechanical reproduction of the game while it was being played, a Western Union telegraph wire was set up direct from Columbia, with information broadcast to Lawrence. A group of people then would announce the results of the previous play and those in attendance would cheer as though they were watching the game live, including the schools Rock Chalk, Jayhawk cheer. Border War 1911 college football season List of historically significant college football games

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Flea Kicker
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The final minutes of the game were seen by many people on ABC, after other regional games ended. The Cornhuskers, who had won national championships for the 1994 and 1995 seasons, went into the game with an 8–0 record and they had only given up seven points in their last three games and had beaten the Tigers eighteen straight times. The Tigers were unranked with a 6–3 record, and in the history, had never beaten a No.1 ranked team. The Huskers took possession from a punt after Missouri failed to convert a first down on their own 33-yard line with 1,02 left, in less than a minute, the Huskers moved the ball 55 yards. The Huskers were on the Missouri 12-yard line with seven seconds left when Nebraska quarterback Scott Frost threw a pass intended for wingback Shevin Wiggins. The ball hit Wiggins directly in the chest near the goal line, the ball immediately shot down and hit a Missouri safety in the foot and popped back in the air. Then Missouri safety Julian Jones tackled Wiggins as time expired, as Wiggins was pulled to the ground, his leg popped up, kicking the ball into the air for a second time. Cornhuskers receiver Matt Davison leaped for the ball, his hands scraping the turf as he managed to make the catch in the endzone for a touchdown, Missouri fans stormed the field in celebration, thinking they had won. The play could have resulted in a 15-yard penalty if officials had considered the kick intentional, instead, they ruled the catch a touchdown. Once fans were cleared from the field, Kris Brown kicked the point for Nebraska to send the game into overtime. In OT, Frost ran for a touchdown, and Jones was sacked on 4th, Missouri finished the season 7–5 with a loss to Colorado State in the Holiday Bowl. The Tigers did not defeat the Cornhuskers until 2003, ending a 24-game losing streak in the series. After the game, Wiggins claimed to have kicked the ball intentionally to keep the play alive and he also at various times and in later interviews claimed to have been trying to kick the ball back to himself for a catch. Regardless, and unfortunately for the Tigers, the outcome of the game could not be changed after the fact, furthermore, the rules only allowed officials to establish intent to kick only as they could determine clearly on the field of play. Although Nebraska dropped to No.3 in the AP Poll the following week, they were still undefeated, the Cornhuskers defeated Iowa State and Colorado in the last two games of the regular season and beat Texas A&M 54–15 in the Big 12 Championship Game. Nebraska went on to defeat Peyton Manning and No.3 Tennessee 42–17 in the Orange Bowl to finish the season 13–0, the Cornhuskers had a No.1 ranking in the Coaches Poll, giving them a third national championship in four seasons. However, they had to split the championship with the 12–0 Michigan Wolverines who defeated No.8 Washington State 21–16 in the 1998 Rose Bowl, the Flea Kicker was ranked No.11 on The Best Damn Sports Show Periods list of Top 50 Amazing Catches. The Flea Kicker was also being recreated for the Fox Sports Net program Sport Science in an episode called Bet You Cant Do It Again, missouri–Nebraska football rivalry Fifth Down Game

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List of Missouri Tigers head football coaches
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The team has had 31 head coaches since it started playing organized football in 1890 with the nickname Tigers. Missouri joined the Western Interstate University Football Association in December 1891, the conference disbanded after the 1897 season and Missouri remained independent until joining the Missouri Valley Intercollegiate Athletic Association in 1907. After several changes, the conference became the Big Eight Conference. The Tigers became a member of the Big 12 in 1996 when the Big Eight disbanded. Missouri subsequently left the Big 12 following the 2011 season and joined as the 14th member of the SEC effective for the 2012 season, the Tigers have played 1,180 games during their 119 seasons. In those seasons, seven coaches have led Missouri to postseason games, Don Faurot, Chauncey Simpson, Dan Devine, Al Onofrio, Warren Powers, Larry Smith. Nine coaches have won conference championships with the Tigers, Harry Orman Robinson, C. D. Bliss, Bill Roper, Chester Brewer, John F. Miller, Gwinn Henry, Faurot, Simpson. Faurot is the leader in games coached, years coached. Roper has the highest winning percentage of any coach, with a percentage of.938 during his one year, of coaches who served more than one season, James Phelan leads with a.813 winning percentage. Frank Carideo is, in terms of winning percentage, the worst coach the Tigers have had, Onofrio and Smith have both been awarded coach of the year honors in their conference by the Associated Press. Of the 31 Tigers coaches, five have been inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame, Roper, Phelan, Faurot, Frank Broyles, the current head coach is Barry Odom, who was hired in December 2015

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Missouri Tigers football statistical leaders
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Within those areas, the lists identify single-game, single-season and career leaders. The Tigers represent the University of Missouri in the NCAAs Southeastern Conference, although Missouri began competing in intercollegiate football in 1890, the schools official record book considers the modern era to have begun in 1938. Records from before this year are incomplete and inconsistent. These lists are dominated by more recent players for several reasons, Since the 1930s, seasons have increased from 9 games to 10,11, since 1996, Missouri has had the opportunity to play in a conference championship game, adding a potential extra game to the season. Missouri reached a championship game in 2007,2008,2013. Bowl games only began counting toward single-season and career statistics in 2002 and these statistics are updated through the end of the 2016 season. The Missouri Football Record Book sometimes only lists a leader in certain statistics, total offense is the sum of passing and rushing statistics. It does not include receiving or returns

Missouri Tigers football
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The Missouri Tigers football program represents the University of Missouri in college football and competes in the Football Bowl Subdivision of the National Collegiate Athletic Association. Since 2012, Missouri has been a member of the Southeastern Conference and is aligned in its Eastern Division. Home games are played at Faurot Field in Columbia,

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A night game at home for the Missouri Tigers.

Big Six Conference
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The Big Eight Conference was a National Collegiate Athletic Association -affiliated Division I-A college athletic association that sponsored football. Additionally, the University of Iowa was an member of the MVIAA. The conference was dissolved in 1996, the Big Eight kept its headquarters in Kansas City, Missouri. In February 1995, the Big Eight an

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Big Eight Conference

Gwinn Henry
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Gwinn Henry was an American football player, track athlete, coach, and college athletics administrator. Henry was also the coach of the St. Louis Gunners. Henry was the first head coach at the Howard Payne University in Brownwood, Texas. His coaching record at Howard Payne was 5–7–3, Henry was head coach of the University of Missouri from 1923 to 1

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Gwinn Henry

Big Eight Conference
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The Big Eight Conference was a National Collegiate Athletic Association -affiliated Division I-A college athletic association that sponsored football. Additionally, the University of Iowa was an member of the MVIAA. The conference was dissolved in 1996, the Big Eight kept its headquarters in Kansas City, Missouri. In February 1995, the Big Eight an

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Big Eight Conference

1929 Oklahoma Sooners football team
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The 1929 Oklahoma Sooners football team represented the University of Oklahoma in the 1929 college football season. No Sooners received All-America honors in 1929, though back Frank Crider received all-conference honors

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1929 Oklahoma Sooners football

American football
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The offense must advance at least ten yards in four downs, or plays, or else they turn over the football to the opposing team, if they succeed, they are given a new set of four downs. Points are primarily scored by advancing the ball into the teams end zone for a touchdown or kicking the ball through the opponents goalposts for a field goal. The te

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Larry Fitzgerald catches a pass while defended by Cortland Finnegan at the 2009 Pro Bowl

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A photograph of Walter Camp, the "Father of American Football", taken from 1878 when Camp was captain of Yale 's football team

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William "Pudge" Heffelfinger, widely regarded as the first professional football player

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A quarterback for the Kiel Baltic Hurricanes under center, ready to take the snap

University of Missouri
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The University of Missouri is a public land-grant research university located in Columbia, Missouri, U. S. It was founded in 1839 as the first public institution of higher education west of the Mississippi River, as the largest university in the state, it enrolled 32,777 students in 2016, offering over 300 degree programs in 19 academic colleges in

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Fire at Academic Hall, 1892

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University of Missouri

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Painting of the Red Campus soon after the construction of Jesse Hall

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Francis Quadrangle, featuring the columns and Jesse Hall

Columbia, Missouri
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Columbia /kəˈlʌmbiə/ is a city in the U. S. state of Missouri and the county seat of Boone County. Founded in 1818, it is home to the University of Missouri and is the city of the Columbia Metropolitan Area. It is Missouris fourth most-populous city, with a population of 119,108 in 2015. As a midwestern town, the city has a reputation for progressi

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Jesse Hall and the columns on Francis Quadrangle at the University of Missouri

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An aerial depiction of Columbia's downtown district in 1869. The large building on the right is University of Missouri Academic Hall.

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A busy day on Broadway in 1919.

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Downtown Columbia, facing southeast on Fifth St.

Faurot Field
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Faurot Field /fɔːˈroʊ/, /fəˈroʊ/ at Memorial Stadium is a stadium in Columbia, Missouri, United States, on the campus of the University of Missouri. It is primarily used for football and serves as the field for the Missouri Tigers football program. In 1972, Memorial Stadiums playing surface was named Faurot Field in honor of longtime coach Don Faur

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Memorial Stadium

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The new 15-story state-of-the-art facility containing press boxes, suites, and a restaurant was constructed in 2000.

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The new Daktronics video board installed before the start of the 2009-2010 football season.

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Press box view of the redesigned FieldTurf surface for the 2012 season.

Truman the Tiger
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Truman the Tiger is the official mascot of the athletic teams of the University of Missouri Tigers. Truman is named after U. S. President Harry S. Truman, the mascot was named on September 12,1986, though the use of a Bengal tiger as Missouris mascot is traced to the 1890s. Truman has been awarded best mascot in the several times. The mascot makes

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Truman the Tiger

Marching Mizzou
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Marching Mizzou, M2, or The Big M of the Midwest is the performing marching band for the University of Missouri, founded in 1885 as a college military band. Originally consisting of only 12 members, it is now the largest student organization on the MU campus, Marching Mizzous signature drill Flip Tigers has been a well-known tradition of its pre-ga

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"Flip Tigers" initial spell-out of MIZZOU

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"Flip Tigers" completed, spelling TIGERS

1911 Kansas vs. Missouri football game
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It is widely considered, although contested, to be the first college football homecoming game ever played. The Missouri Tigers, under coach Chester Brewer entered the game with a record of 2 wins,4 losses, the Kansas Jayhawks, led by Ralph W. Sherwin brought a record of 4 wins,2 losses, and 1 tie. The game ended in a 3–3 tie and was the game of the

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First homecoming football game, 1911

Flea Kicker
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The final minutes of the game were seen by many people on ABC, after other regional games ended. The Cornhuskers, who had won national championships for the 1994 and 1995 seasons, went into the game with an 8–0 record and they had only given up seven points in their last three games and had beaten the Tigers eighteen straight times. The Tigers were

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Flea Kicker

List of Missouri Tigers head football coaches
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The team has had 31 head coaches since it started playing organized football in 1890 with the nickname Tigers. Missouri joined the Western Interstate University Football Association in December 1891, the conference disbanded after the 1897 season and Missouri remained independent until joining the Missouri Valley Intercollegiate Athletic Associatio

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Gary Pinkel, current head coach of the Missouri Tigers

Missouri Tigers football statistical leaders
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Within those areas, the lists identify single-game, single-season and career leaders. The Tigers represent the University of Missouri in the NCAAs Southeastern Conference, although Missouri began competing in intercollegiate football in 1890, the schools official record book considers the modern era to have begun in 1938. Records from before this y

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Chase Daniel is Missouri's career leader in passing yards

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Brad Smith is Missouri's career leader in rushing yards and is second in passing yards.